Under a DACA amnesty, American taxpayers would be left with a $26 billion bill. About one in five DACA illegal aliens, after an amnesty, would end up on food stamps, while at least one in seven would go on Medicaid. Since DACA’s inception under Obama, more than 2,100 illegal aliens have been kicked off the program after it was revealed that they were either criminals or gang members. JOHN BINDER

Saturday, November 28, 2015

Saudi monarchy beheads more than fifty in political mass execution

By
Thomas Gaist
28 November 2015

The Saudi monarchy planned to behead more than 50 alleged “Al Qaeda
terrorists” on Friday. At least three of the prisoners scheduled for
execution were “convicted” as children, according to Amnesty
International. Many of the prisoners say that they were forced to
confess while being tortured.
The execution of dozens of the Shi’a
minority has clearly been ordered as a political move. “The Saudi
Arabian authorities are using the guise of counter-terrorism to settle
political scores,” Amnesty Middle East director James Lynch noted.
The
Saudi regime faces a growing internal crisis that has become especially
acute in recent months, after a stampede in September killed more than
2,000 during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, Mecca. Popular outrage
over the incident was further inflamed by revelations that the stampede
was triggered by the militarized entourage escorting the crown prince to
the ceremony.
The stampede coincided with the emergence of a
letter by an unnamed member of the royal family calling for a palace
coup against King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and his clique of
supporters.
The internal crisis is intensified by growing regional
and geopolitical pressures, including the regional struggle of the
Sunni-dominated Saudi government against the Shi’a regime in Iran.
Iranian support for Shia elements, including the Houthi rebels that
seized power in Yemen early this year, is a cause of major concern for
Riyadh, which has responded with a ferocious air and ground war against
Yemen.
Behind the sensational headlines produced by this year’s
surge in beheadings by the regime, Riyadh has been waging a months-long
war against Yemen, pummeling one of the poorest countries in the world
with advanced missiles and bombs supplied by the US, with barely a
mention in the American media.
US logistics and intelligence
personnel have organized the Saudi bombardment, which has killed at
least 2,600 civilians and has devastated large areas of the country
since beginning in March. At least 300 of those killed in the Saudi
strikes were victims of flagrantly illegal operations targeting civilian
areas, according to a new Human Rights Watch report. In 10 separate
strikes examined by HRW, no military targets were found nearby. Neither
Washington nor Riyadh has investigated a single incident of mass killing
of civilians arising from the Yemen war, according to HRW.
The
Saudi fear of Iranian-backed Shi’a forces applies within the boundaries
of the kingdom itself. It is no coincidence that all of the victims of
Friday’s executions were drawn from a town called Awamiyya, located in
Saudi’s Eastern Province, a Shi’a-dominated area which is facing
increasing repression by the regime.
So frequently highlighted by
the US government and media, the number of beheadings carried out by
Islamist extremist militias pales in comparison to those of Washington’s
closest ally in the Middle East. The Saudi state has executed more than
150 people so far this year, surpassing the kingdom’s previous record
for beheadings in a single year, set in 1995. The regime regularly files
death penalty cases based on charges such as “sorcery,” adultery,
apostasy and homosexuality.
While the Saudi regime may justify its
actions by reference to forms of law rooted in the social relations of
ancient slave and feudal societies, the underlying causes of its
atrocities are firmly modern, being rooted in the structure of
capitalist society and the imperialist world order that arises on its
foundations. The crimes of the Saudi monarchy ultimately flow from the
domination of the region by Washington and the cultural and economic
stagnation enforced by capitalist property and the nation-state system.